Notable inmates

Zena Werb (24 March 1945 – 16 June 2020) was a professor and the Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco.

Zenia Szajna Larsson, née Marcinkowska (1922–2007) was a Polish-Swedish writer and sculptor of Jewish descent.

Zev Birger (Hebrew: זאב בירגר; June 1, 1926 – June 6, 2011) was a founder of the Sons of Zion Organization that worked to preserve Hebrew culture and language during World War II.

Zeynab Jalalian (Persian: زينب جلاليان; born March 10, 1982, in Dim Qeshlaq, Maku County) is a Kurdish Iranian who has been convicted a mohareb and sentenced to death by an Islamic Revolutionary Court for allegedly being a member of the Kurdish militant group PJAK, which she denies.

Zeynep Kuray (born 1978) is a Kurdish journalist.

Zhang Jinghui (traditional Chinese: 張景惠; simplified Chinese: 张景惠; pinyin: Zhāng Jǐnghuì; Wade–Giles: Chang1 Ching3-hui4; Hepburn: Chō Keikei; 21 June 1871 – 11 January 1959) was a Chinese general, warlord and politician during the Warlord era.

Zhou Yongkang (Chinese: 周永康; born December 3, 1942) is a former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Zia Rahman is a citizen of Afghanistan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater Internment Facility.

Ziauddin is an Afghan militia leader.

Zia Ul Shah (Urdu: ضیاء ال فیض; born 5 January 1975) is a Pakistani citizen best known for the time he spent in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Zikmund Schul (11 January 1916 – 2 June 1944) was a German Jewish composer.

Zenaida Paley, better known as Zina Morhange (1 June 1909 – 1 October 1987) was a Polish-born French physician and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.